For the evil spirits which dwell in every human being, and are emanations from Ahriman, will be destroyed in the punishment inflicted on men after death.

From Vuller's Ulmai Islam and the Zend-Avesta.] "Light alone is pure and good; darkness is unclean and evil.

Yes, maiden, believe me, God is nearest to us on the mountains; they are his favorite resting-place.

Have you never stood on the wooded summit of a high mountain, and felt, amid the solemn silence of nature, the still and soft, but awful breath of Divinity hovering around you?
Have you prostrated yourself in the green forest, by a pure spring, or beneath the open sky, and listened for the voice of God speaking from among the leaves and waters?
Have you beheld the flame leaping up to its parent the sun, and bearing with it, in the rising column of smoke, our prayers to the radiant Creator?
You listen now in wonder, but I tell you, you would kneel and worship too with me, could I but take you to one of our mountain-altars." "Oh! if I only could go there with you! if I might only once look down from some high mountain over all the woods and meadows, rivers and valleys.

I think, up there, where nothing could be hidden from my eyes, I should feel like an all-seeing Divinity myself.